> That fascicle provides some guidelines, but many of the guidelines are far > from desirable or are very ambiguous. Oh. Too bad. Maybe we should make our own.
> "nim-faasele" is a typographers' term. The official ISIRI 6219 term > (borrowed from ISIRI 3342) is "faasele-ye majaazi". There are also people > suggesting "faasele-ye sefr". I see. Was "faasele-ye majaazi" already a term used by the hordes? It has a poetic ring to it. Or did the people (person??) who developed ISIRI 3342 make it up? > I don't support Behdad's idea generally, Why not? Now that I understand (thanks to your kind explanation), it sounds like a good idea. My feeble mind is staggering at the thought of the potential uses! I think it would cut out a lot of ambiguity, especially for machines (like translators) whereas the human eye might not even notice (so it wouldn't be too obtrusive.) Though the person inputting would have to be really alert. I wonder who would be in charge of the guidelines since, as we've seen, use of just the ZWNJ is pushing it. > but he needs a little more spacing > to show more separation. A full space would be out of question, of course. Yeah. I've often wanted something in between "nim" and "full" like to make it clear if it's for example, "tokhm-e morghi" (egg) or "tokhm-e-morghi" (oval). And with (originally) compound words containg alef after a non-joining letter especially in proper names like "Dezaashib". You might think it's "Dezashib". It is ambiguous which is great for poets but a machine translator might give interesting results! Specifying spacing (or lack of space) here could be helpful. > something. The famous example is the abbreviation "Heh, Dot, Qaf, Dot" > that is used for "hejri-e ghamari". Oh! I had found this "heh" in the Arabic Presentation Forms. Now I know the more scientific way to make it. > There are also cases the you may need to display, say, a medial Ain out of > context. You can put a ZWJ on each side of your Ain. Oh duh. I should have thought of this myself. "On each side" is interesting to note. I was only thinking of *after*. Thanks for the tip! > No, there's not. NBSP is a neutral multi-script character. That should be > a bug in your editor or OS. You're right. Please disregard that. I figured out what was going on. No bug, just human error. > How do you enter ZWNJ on your keyboard, BTW? What "your" keyboard? I'm at the mercy of public-use computer labs usually stocked with Win2000s with one image which reverts to the default (no FA) after you log out. Depending on my mood, if in Word, I either go Insert > Symbol > Special Character or else 0 + 157 on the keypad. On the WinNT at work which I've rigged up for FA, I've remapped one key but all this only works for Word. For webpage making, I have to cut/paste from Word because I'm not clever enough to make some sort of macro that will work on all programs on the computer. If you've got a better idea, I'm all ears. Until then, I'm resigned to suffering. > > I lost a lot of friends in the process!! > And acquired some new ones? ;) Who would think one can lose and gain friends over the ZWNJ?! -Connie _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
